Opinion: Why the Sisterhood is Breaking Down

Author Alison Wolf on the rise of professional, elite women and the consequences for society at large. Photo credit: Crown Publishing Group.

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... I ... back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... the rejoining the professional workforce and having vastly different experiences ... and stay at home moms is the so-called sisterhood ... breaking down and do we really understand the effect ... that feminism has had on our society ... Alison Wolf professor of King's College London and author of double X factor ... on the rise of working women is pretty far less equal were joins me now ... I it Allison or when the sixties and seventies really sold the utopian bill of goods any figuring out ... he really can't handle ... the task of figuring out that ... Khan had little bought ... settling everybody calm happen all ... I the sixties there was another three ten PM stuff around people fall but if you solve the problem ... of shocking Brightman in that in the kitchen you would solve the world's problems at one go ... and that and push pleased to hear what an interesting point to make in the book is that it's hard for women to shed their gender identity ... and this might say that's a problem but that isn't really ... because after all only women can have children that's always can indeed with the thought was going to be with them but for the lead women tend to lessen asset that lives on ... the successful ... often don't have children from for good reason to get caught up in other things that have children they have made the one child to a modest they haven't liked ... so for the childbearing that aam belief opinion poll in an intense that ... is actually a smaller small part of the Curia and I think that's a crucial part of why ... so many women at the top of making Prism online and feel Aaron James Taranto is really a lot about tapering can be the same DNA when in Elysee kind of the next level of the man whenever that may need to them more powerful rich or what have you ... we are entering the workforce change that dynamic an all or women still looking for that more powerful ... I the women on looking for a guy who's at least ask awful because people say the peso solve the problem is self at sleepily is still some deals that have been and I want that ... this twenty men don't want to die ... and what is happening is you I'm really getting these ... beasts income families these herrings that we'll really successful man is successful women ... I'm that's and thirty mah change announced that ... the needle on a whim announced he is the more educated become the harder it is to find I can and I think it's harmful By Ruth but interesting Lee that I spend money down the center you get these if any parallel practice and cost What does happen ... is that three quarters of the last four seconds behind lesson thirty seconds left ... I have the nineteen fifties how's the nineteen fifties FamilySearch been unfairly maligned was their virtue to share in those roles ... that was that too but I do think we aam better off today with all the problems we stopped though Kelly Allison off with the last word thank you so much for being on mission to include